Apple is putting ChatGPT in Siri for free later this year

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OpenAI is bringing ChatGPT to Apple products with iOS 18 — no account required.

By Kylie Robison, a senior AI reporter working with The Verge's policy and tech teams. She previously worked at Fortune Magazine and Business Insider.

Jun 10, 2024, 6:38 PM UTC

A slide of Apple announcing ChatGPT in Siri at WWDC 2024.

Apple is partnering with OpenAI to put ChatGPT into Siri, the company announced at its WWDC 2024 keynote on Monday.

ChatGPT will be available for free, without an account, and user information won’t be logged. The chatbot will also be integrated into system wide writing tools.

The long-awaited partnership emerges as Apple strives to integrate AI features that rival those of other big tech companies. Apple had been in discussions with both Google and OpenAI to incorporate their AI technology into its operating systems. Ultimately, it was OpenAI that secured the deal.

There has been speculation that the recent launch of OpenAI’s GPT-4o — a voice assistant criticized for sounding uncannily like Scarlett Johansson in the movie Her — was intended to showcase how OpenAI’s technology could enhance Apple’s Siri.

Alongside its OpenAI partnership, Apple announced a litany of new AI features under what it is calling Apple Intelligence. In addition to ChatGPT being put into Siri, OpenAI’s tech is being used to power AI writing summaries across Apple’s operating systems.

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